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France-Costa Rica Game Sold
Out
All 5,000 available tickets for
the France-Costa Rica benefit
soccer game Wednesday sold
within hours.
The 12,000 other tickets for the
Nov. 9 friendly have been
reserved by workers committees,
local government bodies and the
French Soccer Federation.
"It's not every day that the
French team comes to Martinique
and we can see so many French
West Indian players,"
Martinique's football league
president Alain Rapon said
Friday, the day after the ticket
were sold.
The game is raising funds for
the families of victims of the
West Caribbean Airways plane
crash in Venezuela on Aug. 16.
Of the 160 killed, 152 were
residents of Martinique.
Six players from the French West
Indies are on France's roster:
Lilian Thuram, Thierry Henry,
Sylvain Wiltord, Florent Malouda,
Eric Abidal and Nicolas Anelka.
Anelka has not played for Les
Bleus since April 2002.
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